The government seems to have besotted the provinces in the same degree that it has corrupted Paris.
Ruin is to overtake every existing thing; not only the besotted people and their dumb idols, but beasts and birds and even the fish of the sea are to perish in the universal catastrophe.
Septuagint puts it yet more strongly, "for they (the besotted goyim) are afraid (i.
He has looked at truth in the depths, among men begrimed by toil and besotted by ignorance, and still found her fair.
I almost think yon besotted skeleton spoke truth, and that the reluctance with which I part from thee hath something in it more than is natural.
It's a p'lite attention he assoomes, in hisbesotted way, is doo the sex.
The besotted lover, overcome with his soul's reaction, the June sun and a crowded morning, fell asleep.
Innocence, reinforced by pretty features, has an easy prey in besotted experience.
But they will never retreat so long as the man lives and sways them, and we hold Melicent, for, as you plainly see, this abominable reprobate is quite besotted with love of her.
Therefore, come close to me that I may see the beauty which besotted this Demetrios, whom, I think now, I must have loved.
They may be true in this raw land or in besotted Ireland, but in the Fatherland we worship brain.
His dry sobs changed to the abandoned tears of childhood as he ran down the street of elms and besotted mansions to tell his mother.
I stole in shadow from the hall, my heart pounding, but my purpose very steady, and passed silently through passages and corridors where here and there lay one in besotted sleep, until at last I came out in a little court by the postern.
Except that she had grown more unwieldy, that her eyes were bleared and dim, and that her driveling mouth and hanging jaws gave her the appearance of a besotted hag, she bore no traces of a mortal illness such as Maxwell had described.
And I besotted myself, and gambled, and drank, and took to all sorts of devilries out of despair and fury.
The princess had had a hundred warnings; mild hints from her husband’s parents; grim remonstrances from himself—but took no more heed of this advice than such besotted poor wretches do.
The quatrains set forth the condition of the soulbesotted with self love.
The valet never imagined his master guilty of such besotted folly as to be unprepared for this catastrophe.
It was not the wine, but his own grandeur that intoxicated and besotted him.
Any woman would have believed that she did her duty in warning this besottedgirl against her folly.
Are you idiotic andbesotted enough to believe that it is anything but your fortune this man cares for?
Well we may be sure, if these besotted louts are moving thus early, that there is something which has stirred the hornet's nest, so we will to our rendezvous.
Vigneau was at once drunken, licentious, and boorish, his habits being such as befitted the company of the besotted and brutal troopers whom he led, rather than that of one of the gentlest ladies of Normandy.
Indeed, the lives of these Saxons were of no account whatever; and the honour of the Saxon women was at the mercy of besotted and degraded Norman troopers.
If I may, I would very much prefer retiring to a convent, as I have said before, to spending my life with one so besotted and utterly lost to human feeling.
But I will never share my young life with a knightbesotted and cruel as Vigneau.
We were slow to believe that our fellow-citizens of the New England States could be so besotted by the influence of the institution of slavery, that they would outrage our persons in its defence.
Twice before, had he run away from the field of battle--but that, in the opinions of his besotted admirers, was profound imperial policy.
He is making up a besotted mind to say, "Fly with me," when the Karinski troupe vanishes Moscow-wards and an inexorable contract drives him to Dantzic.
The blind, besotted dupes of your demoniac wickedness!
In the self-same spirit did my namesake Charles the Great butcher the Saxons because the besotted heathens presumed to entertain convictions differing from his own.
May not some mighty man lie buried there, the once frail tenement of a great mind whose noble thoughts have years ago wakened a besotted world to truths and aspirations hitherto unknown?
He saw only a besotted people led in chains by a crafty priesthood; he heard only the unending repetition of records that were fictitious, and dogmas that drew a curtain of darkness over the understanding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besotted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
